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Context: As some people know, I have always hated Apple as a company, though I love some of the things they have done for design. However, for all the hype about their design, I have found most of their interfaces confusing.

But all this was based on what I observed from other people using the system. Last week, I had to convince myself to work with Mac for at least a couple of weeks, to be able to collaborate with other designers.

I’m just sharing my experience from the last few days. This is all relative to my past experience with Windows and Ubuntu. Also note that I’m a heavy keyboard-user.

Pluses first – it’s anyway a small list 😉

Battery

Display sharpness

Build quality

Keyboard backlight

Sound (volume and clarity)

Ability to customize keyboard shortcuts for any app

What I found annoying

I’ve just grouped them by the app in which it happened.

Finder

Hitting Enter renames the file/folder instead of opening it

In grid view, pressing right arrow at last item in a row does not go to next row (gets stuck there)

Pressing down arrow does nothing if the next row ended before the current column

Cmd+Q does not work for Finder alone

No way to go back to the last-viewed folder (Alt+Left Arrow in Ubuntu)

In the app switcher (Cmd+Tab), Finder is always there, but selecting it does not do anything

Normally opening an image (double click) does not let me navigate to next/previous images in the folder (need to open by pressing space)

Moving a file/folder from one place to another is painful (there seems to be no shortcut)